Meeting Emotional Needs in Intellectual Disability: The Developmental Approach

About Mark HudsonSabine ZepperitzTanja Sappok

Tanja Sappok MD heads the Berlin Treatment Center for Mental Health in Developmental Disabilities at the Ev. Krankenhaus Koenigin Elisabeth Herzberge as chief physician. Clinical and scientific fields of work include autism spectrum disorders emotional dvelopment disorders behavioural disorders and dementia. She is president of the European Association for Mental Health in Intellectual Disability (EAMHID) and vice president of the German Society for Mental Health with Mental Disability (DGSGB) and teaches psychiatry at the medical faculty of the Charite Berlin. Sabine Zepperitz Dipl.-pad is a systemic therapist and trauma consultant and leads pedagogical staff at the Berlin Treatment Center for Mental Health in Developmental Disorders at the Ev. Krankenhaus Koenigin Elisabeth Herzberge. She works primarily with people with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities and trains facilitators for SED-S diagnostics and counselling in a series of workshops. She has been offering advanced training for caregivers and team consultations in the support for people with disabilities for several years. Dr Mark Hudson DClinPsy is a practising clinical psychologist and assistant professor of clinical psychology at the University of Nottingham UK where he carries out teaching and research. He works in both a community child and adolescent mental health service and a specialist community team for children with ID. Dr Hudson currently co-leads the Elizabeth Newson Centre providing specialist assessments to families where a child has developmental difficulties.